There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.
GEORGE S. PATTONMany soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
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War is the only place where a man lives.
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All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
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No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
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Say what you mean and mean what you say.
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I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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Throughout history wars have been lost because of armies not crossing rivers.
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Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
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Officers must assert themselves by example and by voice.
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Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.
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War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
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